classification
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French classification.
Pronunciation
Noun
classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)
- The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
- Near-synonyms: categorization, typing
- 1937-1952, Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions:
- On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
Derived terms
- autoclassification
- classificational
- classificationism
- classificationist
- classification scheme
- classification society
- classification yard
- declassification
- ethnoclassification
- general classification
- Goldschmidt classification
- interclassification
- Keros classification
- Köppen climate classification
- microclassification
- military load classification
- misclassification
- multiclassification
- nonclassification
- overclassification
- phyloclassification
- points classification
- preclassification
- reclassification
- scientific classification
- seroclassification
- soil classification
- sprints classification
- subclassification
- transclassification
- unclassification
Related terms
Translations
act of forming into classes
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See also
Further reading
- “classification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “classification”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “classification”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Etymology
From classe + -ification.
Pronunciation
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Noun
classification f (plural classifications)
Further reading
- “classification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.